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Daniel Christmas, community leader, businessman, activist, adviser, senator (born 10 September 1956 in Sydney, NS). Daniel Christmas helped to transform his home community of Membertou First Nation into one of the most prosperous First Nations in Canada (see also First Nations in Nova Scotia). In 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed him as the first Mi’kmaw senator. Christmas served until 2023, when he retired voluntarily.
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Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, military officer and French colonial governor (b at Orthez, France 12 Feb 1661; d at Cannes-L'Ecluse, France 20 Nov 1732). Subercase arrived at Québec in 1687 as a captain in the Marine.
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Daniel David Moses, playwright, poet (born on 18 February 1952 in Ohsweken, ON; died 13 July 2020 in ON). Daniel David Moses’s literary works often explored Indigenous issues, including the impacts of colonization. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2016 and was appointed professor emeritus at Queen’s University in 2019.
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Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, governor of New France 1665-72 (b in France 1626; d there 24 Oct 1698). Courcelle, a nobleman and a military officer, arrived at Québec "breathing nothing but war" and determined to defeat the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.
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Foley, Daniel (Charles). Composer, b Toronto 24 Apr 1952, B MUS (North Carolina School of the Arts) 1974, M MUS Composition (Toronto) 1977.
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Daniel Fowler, painter (b at Champion Hill, Eng 10 Feb 1810; d on Amherst I, Ont 14 Sept 1894). He studied from 1831-34 with painter and lithographer J.D. Harding, then spent a year in Europe sketching and painting.
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Daniel Grafton Hill, OC, O Ont, human rights specialist, historian, public servant (born 23 November 1923 in Independence, Missouri; died 26 June 2003 in Toronto, ON).
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Daniel Greysolon Dulhut, coureur de bois, fur trader, explorer (b at St-Germain-Laval, France c 1639; d at Montréal 25 Feb 1710). Dulhut helped extend the French trading empire around the Upper Great Lakes.
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Daniel Williams Grossman, dancer, choreographer (born 13 September 1942 in San Francisco, California; died 29 July 2023 in Toronto, ON). Daniel Grossman was one of Canada’s greatest choreographers. He was known for weaving themes of social justice into his dance and for choreography that was equal parts athletic, humorous and satirical. He founded the Danny Grossman Dance Company (DGDC) in 1975 and taught for many years at York University. He received the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Choreography, the William Kilbourn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Toronto Arts Awards and the Dance Ontario Award. He was an inaugural inductee of Canada’s Dance Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Daniel Hétu. Pianist, organist, accompanist, arranger, conductor, singer-songwriter, b Montreal 1 Dec 1950, d Montreal 8 Jan 2008; B MUS (Montreal) 1971. Daniel Hétu began studying piano at four with André Mathieu.
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Daniel Igali began wrestling at the age of 16 and entered the Nigerian National Senior Tournament. Despite the absence of designated age groups, Daniel Igali won his division.
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Daniel J. Caron, Librarian and Archivist of Canada (b at Sainte-Foy, Qué, 1957). Daniel Caron was instrumental in the amalgamation of the National Archives and National Library in 2004 and succeeded Ian WILSON as Librarian and Archivist of Canada in 2009. Caron pursued post-secondary studies in Qubec, earning a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics from the Université Laval, and later, a doctorate in Applied Human Sciences from the Université de Montréal.
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Daniel James Macdonnell, Presbyterian minister (b at Bathurst, NB 15 Jan 1843; d at Fergus, Ont 19 Feb 1896). After graduating from Queen's University in 1858, Macdonnell taught school before studying theology in Scotland and Germany.
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Daniel John O'Donoghue, printer, trade union leader, politician (b at Lakes of Killarney, Ire 1844; d at Toronto 16 Jan 1907). "The father of the Canadian labor movement" began his apprenticeship as a printer in Ottawa
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Daniel Johnson, Québec premier and leader of the Union nationale (born 9 April 1915 in Sainte-Anne-de-Danville, Québec; died 26 September 1968 at the Manic-5 Dam, 214 km north of Baie-Comeau, Québec).
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